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New college to offer nursing training to students

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LAS VEGAS - A new medical school is coming to Las Vegas. Chamberlain College of Nursing is opening its first campus in Nevada. Staff and faculty are hosting an open house for prospective students on Tuesday.

The college is accepting applications for the spring semester. It has 30 spots open for nursing students and will admit 30 more students every admissions period. The school has three admissions periods per year.

Chamberlain offers a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing. It also offers several online graduate programs.

Students have the opportunity to hone their skills at local hospitals. The school also offers a "simcare center, which is a lab that looks like a hospital in which students practice real-life scenarios on dummies.

The opening of this new nursing school comes at a time when demand for health care workers in Nevada is high. Nevada ranks among the worst states in the nation for doctors and nurses per capita.

Chamberlain College of Nursing Dean Judy Hightower says the school's small classes will better prepare students to enter the workforce.

We try to keep a one to twenty five ratio, she said. So, students can have a lot of one on one experiences with their clinical instructors and their faculty members.

Hightower says she is working to develop relationships with local hospitals, so students who graduate from the college stay in Nevada.

Some grade school students are also getting a head start on their nursing careers. Several Clark County School District magnet schools offer nursing programs.

Chamberlain College of Nursing representatives say these types of programs give students a leg up once they start college.

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HSC kicks off Lubbock community education program

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The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center kiced off the Community Medical School Tuesday, a program that allows students, faculty, staff and community members to ask questions concerning predetermined topics and attend lectures on current public concerns.

The first meeting took place at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Academic Classroom Building in room 150, according to a news release from the Tech Health Sciences Center.

The program allows the HSC to showcase some of its faculty members, Brandi Hargrave, executive assistant to the executive vice-president for academic affairs and the coordinator of the Community Medical School, said.

(The Community Medical School) comes from the academic affairs office and were coordinating with the faculty to come in and do a presentation every month. We have it during the academic school year, Hargrave said. Its the third Tuesday of every month. We bring in a presenter, we bring different speakers from different schools and so we try to give a different topic.

The program will also encourage future college students to pursue a career in medicine, Hargrave said.

The Community Medical School was established five years ago, Rial Rolfe, executive vice president for academic affairs at the HSC, said the program lasts throughout the year and faculty and staff give the presentations at a level that everyone can understand, excluding medical jargon from the lecture.

The program has been successful in past years, Rolfe said, and helps to educate the public in order to create a more knowledgeable community that is aware of what is going on in the medical field as well as throughout the nation.

The goal of the event is really to have an informed public so that, when the public seeks to get health care, or they see things in the news, they know about it, Rolfe said. Its really kind of just general education, but also to help with their own healthcare.

Kelsea Loveless, a second year medical student from Lubbock, said health care professionals from University Medical Center were in attendance as well.

The Community Medical School is open to the community to give the public a chance to see the work of the HSC firsthand, Loveless said.

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Competition keeps health-care costs low, Stanford researchers find

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21-Oct-2014

Contact: Michelle Brandt mbrandt@stanford.edu 650-723-0272 Stanford University Medical Center @sumedicine

Medical practices in less competitive health-care markets charge more for services, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The study, based on U.S. health-care data from 2010, provides important new information about the effects of competition on prices for office visits paid by preferred provider organizations, known more commonly as PPOs. PPOs are the most common type of health insurance plan held by privately insured people in the United States.

The study will be published Oct. 22 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

"The research comes out of trying to understand some dramatic changes that have occurred in the health-care system over a couple of decades," said the study's lead author, Laurence Baker, PhD, professor of health research and policy at Stanford.

One striking change is the shift from practices with one or two doctors toward larger, more complex organizations with many physicians. One important impact of this can be reductions in the amount of competition among physician practices. The study sought to understand how variation in the amount of competition within a region affects the amounts doctors are paid, an important consideration when developing health policy.

"This has always been an important issue, and now it's even more important as policy moves us more and more toward larger practices," said study co-author Kate Bundorf, PhD, associate professor of health and research policy.

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UT, Seton reach agreement linking medical school, clinical care

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The University of Texas and the Seton Healthcare Family said long ago that the formers medical school and the latters teaching hospital would work together to improve patient care, advance medical research and strive to lower the cost of health care.

Now that pledge to cooperate is in writing.

A 118-page affiliation agreement calls for UT and Seton to partner for 25 years, with up to two automatic 10-year extensions.

This cements the partnership between the University of Texas and Seton, Greg Fenves, UTs executive vice president and provost, said Monday.

This is the foundation of which we will put in place a whole set of resources, especially for the poor and vulnerable, said Jesus Garza, Setons president and CEO.

The agreement was released Monday, the same day that Seton began construction on a new teaching hospital adjacent to UTs Dell Medical School, which is also under construction.

UT aims to enroll its first medical students in July 2016. Seton plans to open its new hospital, which will replace University Medical Center Brackenridge, in April 2017.

The affiliation agreement allows UT to partner with other health care providers for training and clinical care that Seton, as a Catholic health system, cannot provide. Officials said that essentially continues the current arrangement.

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PureTech raises $55M to support medical device, digital health innovation

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A sample of PureTech Healths pipeline

PureTech, which has put itself squarely at the intersection of med tech and digital health innovation, has raised $55 million in a growth stage investment round, according to a company statement. It also added three senior partners from MIT and Harvard Medical School.

It received the new funding with participation from Invesco Perpetual to push ahead its pipeline of digital health and medical devices.

It launched Knode, in 2012. The search engine aggregates data from journals, patents and clinical trials and spits out that information for users searching for experts in any one discipline or condition. A search for Parkinsons disease, for example, produces more than 25,000 hits with scientists listed in order of the number of papers theyve written, the grant money received, patents owned and clinical trials theyve done.

But it also has a large group of technology that combines pharma, digital and medical device technology. Gelesis is developing a smart pill that is treating obesity and diabetes and is taken like a drug but acts mechanically, so it would be regulated like a medical device. Akili Interactive Labs, which is working on a way to use gaming to remotely diagnose and treat cognitive disorders like ADHD and Alzheimers disease. Akili currently has 10 clinical studies underway, according to an emailed statement from PureTech Ventures Founder Daphne Zohar. She added that it will soon be analyzing the data from the first couple of studies. For a more detailed interview with Zohar, check out this link.

The senior partner additions include:

Dr. H Robert Horvitz, a Nobel Laureate and David H. Koch Professor at MIT. His lab at MIT is all about exploring some of the most complex questions in biology of how genes control human development and behavior.

Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, is also on the boards of several companies such as Sony and Mozilla. Ito has also been working on Akili. The maker movement is particularly interesting to him and he took part in a conversation on the subject at the SouthxSouthwest Festival earlier this year.

Dr. Raju Kucherlapati is the Paul C. Cabot Professor in the Harvard Medical School Department of Genetics, co-founder of Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Abgenix, and a member of President Obamas Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

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Peter Amenta, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Med. School on Implementing an EHR & Revenue Cycle Billing – Video

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Peter Amenta, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Med. School on Implementing an EHR Revenue Cycle Billing
Peter Amenta, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and a speaker at the marcus evans National Healthcare CFO Summit 2014 discussed ...

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Importance of Early Intervention – Youth Anxiety Center – Video

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In the summer of 2013, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in association with its medical school affiliates, Weill Cornell Medical College and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, created...

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Timing of Inguinal Hernia Repair in Premature Babies UTHealth – Video

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The problem we are addressing in the HIP Trial is the lack of knowledge regarding whether IH repair in premature infants who are diagnosed while in the NICU is more safely performed, for the...

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